Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Great Gatsby [Book jacket design: Celestial eyes].
Call Number
HSV/7 E/GC059/Framed GA 2006.02659
Identifier
ark:/88435/cn69m820d
Publisher
n.d. [ca. 1925].
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1925
Extent
1 item ; image 65 x 45 cm
Source Acquisition
Gift of Charles Scribner III, Princeton University Class of 1973.
References
Design is subject of a long article by Charles Scribner, Jr. in the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Winter, 1992).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Gouaches on board
Inscribed, verso: "I.A.N. number: 84.9".
Provenance: Loan label on verso from the National Portrait Gallery, for their show "Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and the Damned".
Item description: Original jacket design for The Great Gatsby.

Discovery Information

Subject
Book jackets—Design
Drawing
Illustration of books—United States—20th century—Design
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby—Illustrations
American fiction—20th century—Illustrations
American literature—20th century—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/de41a994-1b83-4667-ad12-c6c452999bc8/manifest